Pastoral Resources

What you do as president has consequences.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

A major difference between witches and psychotherapists is that witches see the mental health of women as having important political consequences.

I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.